She Writes Press & SparkPress Kick Off Sweep of 2020 Spring Award Season

For the past five years, SparkPoint Studio’s hybrid publishing imprints – She Writes Press and SparkPress – have swept the indie book awards season, taking home more book award finalist and winner accolades than any other indie publisher. As of March 2020, both imprints are on track to sweep the awards season once again for the sixth year in a row.

She Writes Press and SparkPress titles have reached over 900 award and finalist titles collectively, and are inching toward the landmark of one thousand with the Spring 2020 indie awards seasons.

So far, highlights from 2020 include 116 winner and finalist titles:

29 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winners and Finalists

13 finalists in the 2019 Foreword Indies

1st place in the Feathered Quill Book Awards for Women’s Fiction: We Never Told by Diana Altman

Lost in Oaxaca by Jessica Winters Mireles was chosen as the Book of the Day for Foreword Reviews

Suspended Sentence by Janice Morgan and Searching for Normal by Karen Meadows are finalists for The Eric Hoffer Awards’ da Vinci Eye award

Waking in Havana by Elena Schwolsky and You Cannot Mess This Up by Amy Weinland Daughters are finalists for The Eric Hoffer Awards’ Montaigne Medals

3 semi-finalists for the 2019I & I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight (A Year of Living Kindly by Donna Cameron; Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One by Carole Bumpus; and Raising The Bottom by Lisa Boucher)

6 First Horizon Award Finalists and 1 Winnerfor the 2020 Eric Hoffer Awards: (Braided by Beth Ricanati, MD; Mating in Captivity byHelen Zuman; Memories in Dragonflies by Lannette Cornell Bloom; Queen of the Owls by Barbara Lynn Probst; The Red Ribbon by Nancy Freund Bills; Waking in Havana by Elena Schwolsky). Winner:When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew by Hendrika de Vries

Two Sarton Gold winners: Memoir, When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew by Hendrika de Vries, and and Contemporary Fiction, The Greek Persuasion by Kimberly Robeson, and five Sarton Finalists: Memoir (Notes from the Bottom of the World by Suzanne Ada and Among the Maasai by Juliet Cutler); Contemporary Fiction (Love is a Rebellious Bird by Elayne Klasson); Historical Fiction (Shrug by Lisa Braver Moss and Guesthouse for Ganesha by Judith Teitelman)

6 Nautilus Award winners: A Year of Living Kindly by Donna Cameron: Gold Award in Personal Growth and Self-Help; When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew by Hendrika Devries: Gold Award in Memoir; The Alchemy of Noise by Lorraine Devon Wilke: Silver Award in Fiction; The Same River by Lisa Reddick: Silver Award in Fiction large press; Hummingbird in the Underworld by Deborah Tobola: Silver Award in Heroic Journeys; But Not Forever by Jan Von Schleh: Silver Award in Young Adult Fiction

5 Independent Press Award winners: Out of the Bronx by Irene Sardanis, Winner: Inspirational; Gillyflower by Diane Wald, Winner: Paranormal Romance; Off the Rails by Susan Burrowes, Winner: Family & Parenting AND Distinguished Favorite; A Year of Living Kindly by Donna Cameron, Winner: Self Help/Motivational; and Shrug by Lisa Braver Moss, Distinguished Favorite: Young Adult Fiction

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